On Friday we hired bikes and cycled along the coast in Montevideo to the town centre and the historical town which was a really nice flat cycle along a promenade and much less dangerous than cycling around Buenos Aires! Montevideo is quite nice although at one point the 'tourist police' warned us off walking any further into a certain area as it was too dangerous and we might get mugged so we quickly moved on! The area we were staying was definately the nicest an...

After exploring Colonia for a day we then trundled along to Montevideo by coach yesterday which was very easy. We booked into a hostel before we arrived and found it to be very nice- our room isn´t particularly spacious but the beds are the most comfortable we´ve slept in so far. We haven´t yet seen much of the city as we´re less than 5 minutes from the beach so have spent most of our time there! I´m even going a bit brown which is highly unusual and despite...

We are now in Colonia Del Sacramento in Uruguay, a unique and attractive historical town just across the water from Buenos Aires. It has cobbled streets and loads of vintage cars driving around for some reason, and is surrounded by sea on 3 sides. Today was cloudy and a bit rainy but we paddled and the sea is very warm so will look forward to swimming when it´s a bit sunnier! We`re pleased to be away from the hustle and bustle of the city as it very quiet and re...

Yesterday we hired bikes and cycled to the ecological reserve, which was reckless and ridiculous but sort of fun! Navigating through the madness of the road was interesting and a lot of th cycle paths were closed for renovation so we had to take many a detour and a dash across a busy road as lgihts don´t tend too indicate much! The reserve was disappointing, there was lots of litter and not many pkaces we could actually go as a lot of it was swampy so we didn´t...

So we are now in our new hostel which is really nice and relaxing, much more homely than the last with nice places to sit and chill out and we´ve met many more people now. On Tuesday we went to an interesting part of the city called La Boca where all the buildings are painted really bright colours (see here for examples http://images.google.com.ar/images?hl=es&source=hp&q=la%20boca%20buenos%20aires&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi ) but it was r...